[RFC] Responsive layout

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Re: Responsive layout

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Arty, I am just wondering what will happen when we have banner advertisements in forums when we use this responsive layout? I have Adsense banner ads which are not fluid. I have the horizontal ads placed at the top and bottom of pages as well as after first post in topics. I am unable to test these ads in my local host and can only find out when I install it in my live site in the future. So I am curious how that will work.

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You'll need to alter them. Create several adsense channels, swap channel ids based on user resolution

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Google adsense has the option of creating ads in mobile format, I think that in part would be an advantage.
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Arty wrote:You'll need to alter them. Create several adsense channels, swap channel ids based on user resolution
Is it really a worry, though? Banner ads on regular ProSilver will probably be just as ugly on mobile devices as they will be in responsive layouts, right?

Personally, I went with a different option on my site -- viewing from mobile devices did not get ads at all (using simple CSS). Who wants any screen real estate taken up by ads on your phone? However, now that tablets are popular, and have screens big enough to allow ads, I might have considered modifying that policy, but I'm no developing the site, so it's moot.

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Re: Responsive layout

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Thank you all for your input. Altering the ads based on resolution seems like a good idea. Nextgen is right, google now has mobile banner ads so I might use that for mobile devices. But for tablets, like pony99ca said, since their screen is big enough, I might be wanting to serve the regular banner ads there. Its good to know this can be done since I don't want to completely remove ads for mobiles. My site's main income is from ads and everyday more and more users are using mobiles. So monetizing for mobile devices make sense as long as we can serve a different mobile ad for those users instead of the standard ones used for desktops.

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As I alluded to, you could do something now. CSS has a "handheld" profile (I belive), so you could use that to serve different (smaller) images.

However, I don't believe that I've ever clciked (intentionally) on a mobile ad. Many of them are more intrusive that flashing banners or pop-ups on PCS. If others are like me, you may not make much money unless the ads are impression-based instead of click-through based.

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Re: Responsive layout

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PR is almost ready: https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/pull/1719

I've added a lot of stuff since last update:
- Rebased on latest develop.
- Responsive member list and other tables.
- Responsive forms.
- Responsive user profiles.
- Responsive posts.
- Large images in posts posted via img bbcode and as attachments are shown with scrollbars instead of being cut off.

Notifications list popup in header does not work right now because of bug that is fixed in separate PR: https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/pull/1799

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I think its ready. Please check it, tell me if I missed something.

I don't like layout of post profiles. They look ok, but not great. Any suggestions?

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Ticket 10948 missing.
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Re: Responsive layout

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That PR was merged yesterday after I rebased this PR. It doesn't affect anything.

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